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The Children of Huang Shi (2008) - Movie Details

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Release Date: May 23, 2008 (Limited)
On DVD: January 20, 2009
Genre: Drama, War
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Writer: Jane Hawksley, James MacManus
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Official site: childrenofhuangshi.com
Running Time: 125 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for some disturbing and violent content

Based on real events, "The Children of Huang Shi" is a sweeping but intimate story set against war-torn China in the 1930's. The film centers on a young English journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an American nurse (RADHA MITCHELL) and the leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun-Fat) who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances. Together they rescue 60 orphaned children, leading them on an extraordinary journey across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain, through...

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell and Chow Yun-Fat star in The Children of Huang Shi, a little known drama set during the Japanese occupation of China. The movie, about a journalist who unwittingly becomes the protector of a group of orphaned boys, looks nice and offers fine performances, but fails to dig its claws into your heart.

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